THE EMBASSY OF THE DEMOCRATIC
PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA TO SWITZERLAND
Pourtalèsstrasse 43
3074 Muri/Bern Switzerland
E-mail: dprk.embassy@bluewin.ch
No 108/26
1. Press Statement of First Vice Department Director of WPK Central Committee
2. Defence Science Research Institutes of DPRK Test Major Weapon System
3. C.C., WPK Sends Congratulatory Message to Ryugyong General Ophthalmic Hospital
Press Statement of First Vice Department Director of WPK Central Committee
Pyongyang, November 2 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Sik, first vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, made public the following press statement "Immutable is our national defence policy to strengthen the nuclear war deterrent with more increasing speed" on November 2:
The enemy countries are going so reckless in their adventurous acts for military confrontation with the DPRK in the closing months of the year.
According to a recent media report of the ROK, the U.S. and the ROK staged in secrecy Iron Mace, military exercises for joint operation of the U.S. nuclear forces and the ROK conventional forces, from September 29 to October 2.
The military drill with an aggressive codename is the most hideous nuclear war rehearsal aimed at using nuclear weapons against the DPRK.
Iron Mace, which has been staged annually since 2024, fully betrays that the U.S. remains unchanged in its wild ambition to stifle the DPRK with nukes and such threats are escalating with each passing day.
What does the U.S. nuclear blackmail indicate?
It clearly proves how just the DPRK is in its efforts for ceaselessly bolstering up its nuclear forces capable of thoroughly coping with such nuclear threats.
In October, the U.S. frantically staged a series of war rehearsals, including the field mobile war drill Hoguk and large-scale combined air drill Freedom Flag, together with its stooges, across the ROK. Such successive maneuvers have seriously violated the security environment of the DPRK.
Worse still, the U.S. dispatched an "instructors' unit" of the Third Expedition of its marines, the advance force for overseas aggression, to the ROK to stage multi-domain reconnaissance drill for the first time. It is explicitly expressing its stand for confrontation, saying that the drill is aimed at supporting the ROK's Kill Chain and demonstrates that the U.S. reinforcements can be rapidly deployed on the Korean peninsula in contingency.
Furthermore it was reported that the U.S. air force's fighters from the U.S. mainland were involved in Keen Sword, large-scale U.S.-Japan joint military exercises staged in Japan, to conduct intensive joint air training day and night from Oct. 19 to 29.
The enemies have intensified its military moves in public or behind closed doors, as evidenced by such dangerous nuclear war rehearsal as Iron Mace and deployment of the reconnaissance force and U.S. mainland-based fighters, reinforcements to be brought to the Korean peninsula in case of emergency.
This underlines the need for the DPRK to contain and control the heinous enemies with more powerful nuclear means.
The reality teaches once again the underlying truth that strength is peace and peace is guaranteed only by strength.
We are full of capability and confidence to counter everything.
We will make every effort to ensure that the country's nuclear war deterrent defends the sovereignty and security of the state and regional peace in a responsible manner.
This is the basic mission of our nuclear war deterrent.
Immutable is the DPRK's national defence policy to strengthen the nuclear war deterrent of the country with more increasing speed in order to counter existing complex and potential threats.
Defence Science Research Institutes of DPRK Test Major Weapon System
Pyongyang, November 1 (KCNA) -- The Missile Administration of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea conducted a test on October 31 to assess adaptation to combat and power of a cluster-bomb warhead to be tipped on tactical ballistic missiles.
Full General Kim Jong Sik, member of the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea and first vice department director of the Central Committee of the WPK, oversaw the test.
The Ballistic Missile System Institute and the Warhead Institute of the Missile Administration announced that they confirmed that the Standard Type 2 cluster-bomb warhead is capable of turning into ashes a target area of 12 to 13 hectares with its highest-density power.
The general director of the DPRK Missile Administration said: "We classify the cluster-bomb warheads into four categories according to special and standard purposes. Within this year we will enable units to select and use all those types according to operational aims and specific features of targets."
The Missile Administration said that the test is a part of regular scientific research activities aimed at boosting the power of combat systems.
C.C., WPK Sends Congratulatory Message to Ryugyong General Ophthalmic Hospital
Pyongyang, November 2 (KCNA) -- A meeting was held on November 1 to convey a congratulatory message from the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea to the medical workers and employees of the Ryugyong General Ophthalmic Hospital.
Present there were Kim Sung Du, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, and officials and employees of the hospital.
Kim Sung Du read out the congratulatory message to the medical workers and employees of the hospital.
The WPK Central Committee in its congratulatory message noted that over the past decade our people and children affiliated with eye diseases had scientific checkups and treatment at the advanced and modernized hospital and that all those who received medical care at the hospital are grateful to our socialist system with pleasure as they could recover their sight and lead a brighter life.
The congratulatory message stressed it is unthinkable without the efforts of its medical workers and employees that the hospital has invariably added luster to its name as a precious wealth of the state in charge of protecting and taking care of the people's health.
It said it is a result of its enterprising efforts and innovations that the hospital won the honorable title of the Three-Revolution Red Flag, the Twice "Lathe No. 26" Model Machine Prize and the February 16 Science and Technology Prize, which are shining in its short history and it is due appraisal of the genuine public health group which has devoted talents, enthusiasm and conscience on the road of serving the people.
The WPK Central Committee in the message extended warm congratulations to the medical workers and employees of the hospital who are significantly commemorating its 10th founding anniversary with respectable and valuable pride of having turned it into an ophthalmic centre of our country and a medical institution with the highest level of medical treatment and service.
Speeches were made and a resolution was adopted at the meeting.